enraged - Story 43020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in his chest was crushing. His sister, Olivia, her voice filled with a calm conviction, had told him she was embracing Mormonism.

He stared at the perfectly arranged picture of their family on the mantelpiece. The smile on his face was a rictus, a mask. How could she?

“You’re throwing away your life,” he managed to say, his voice thick with emotion. The words caught in his throat.

She didn’t answer, just kept smiling that serene, infuriating smile. He wanted to scream. He wanted to shatter something. He turned abruptly, his back to her, and walked out the door, the chill night air doing little to soothe the fire that was raging inside.

Emotion: enraged

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -2.14 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.33

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion enraged. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 enraged stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the enraged emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the enraged vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.555
`est`	0.370
`aggravated`	0.362
`骂`	0.359
`🤬`	0.345

Suppressed:

`a`	-0.468
`de`	-0.358
`la`	-0.312
`latter`	-0.287
`☺️`	-0.285